Liu believes you ain't lived until you've stood next to Floyd Mayweather Sr. as he sings and dances to Lady Marmalade...
6:50am - Began the morning with Marco Antonio Barrera's second most significant loss, the fight with Junior Jones. I found this footage quite useful, as I'd not seen a whole lot of Junior outside the loss to Morales. The one thing about Jones that sucks though is that he's known as "Junior Jones"...when he had a much better and more pimp name. His real name is Ivy Jones. "Poison" Ivy Jones...EXCELLENT. Warning, the sound and video are about 20 seconds off, but it's still worth a watch:
Jones/Barrera.
7:30am - 1.25 mile run.
10:30am - Gym Time.
Mike was there before me again, very rare.
10 minute stretch.
1 round ring-jacks.
2 rounds Shadowboxing.
4 rounds moderate sparring. I wanted to model my style more like Junior's above. So I got a bit lower and jabbed with all my reach, Diego got scolded about 30 seconds in for trying to get lower "Diego! He a'ready low...why you tryin ta get lowa dan 'im?", for not keeping his left hand higher to defend the jab, and for lack of head-movement. So I guess the tricky stance and long jab works well. I also hooked and uppercut more when he tried to press REALLY close. There was a moment where I knew had I been in a real fight, and put full power, I'd have likely gotten a KO. Diego came in low and slipped one way, ran right into an uppercut, and slipped the other way, ran right into the straight left while throwing his jab. The way the punches felt on my hands when they landed, I was thought "yeah, that could have really hurt someone." Punching between is getting to be a Hell of an Art form.
3 rounds speed-bag.
Conditioning:
Ab-machine circuit.
40 twist-ups.
10 Hindu push-ups.
15 ab roll-outs.
Gym Moments:
Wes and Lonnie were fuckin throwing BOMBS. They had a really good 6 round session. The highlight was when Lonnie had Wes on the ropes and Wes was bobbing and weaving very fast to avoid punches, at one point Lonnie just stopped and put his hands down and stood over Wes like "the fuck you doin'?" and Wes was still bobbing and weaving for a second. Wes knocked Lonnie down at one point, though, and both of them had bloodied mouths.
Apparently Wayne McCullough sent this Irish kid to our Gym. And by Irish I mean he's the most Irish person I've ever met in my whole life. Talks a lot like Micky from Snatch, has green gloves, doesn't know what the fuck 147lbs means (metric system). And somehow he and Sharif were talking and understanding each other. I think he's only a bit heavier than me though, so he might want some work.
Speaking of which I've resorted to friendly smack-talk. When Sharif came in Mike said we were talking about him (we were agreeing he's the best guy at the Gym), and I said "Yeah I was talkin' about how you scared to come early, 'cause you don't want none."
Zab was telling stories about Wes and Floyd Jr. He said when he first met Wes he was at Top Rank looking to spar some guy who was talking shit about him (didn't catch who), and Wes offered to spar in the "Shit I'll mufuckin' spar you!" kinda way. Zab said he was like "yo Son, who even are you? Man git ya lil Amacha ass outta hea!" But he sparred him anyway and took Wes out with the left uppercut.
Then he was talking about Floyd Jr., because apparently they've known each other from the Amateurs since they were like 6 years old, and been roommates. He said around the time Floyd Sr. got locked up, Floyd Jr. was all broken up about it because Floyd Sr. used to give him information on who he was Fighting before he fought. He said:
"Yeah man Floyd would be all "man I can't fight man, my Daddy locked up and he ain't called me or nothin...I can't fight like this man"...cryin like a lil bitch."
Funny part is Rafael Garcia Sr. sort of confirmed it, saying Floyd Jr. wasn't very confident when he was a lot younger and in the Amateurs.
